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How the story of ‘the girl of 100 portraits’ inspired two books

Luc Corlouër made ‘deal’ with Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada over his research into model Louise Cansot, murdered in Paris in 1949 For almost eight decades the artists’ model Louise Cansot, the subject of the novel winning France’s most prestigious literary prize this year, was one of Paris’s forgotten murder victims. After her body was found near the Seine in September 1949, city police wrote off the young woman, immortalised as “the girl of 100 portraits”, as loose, libertine and – worse – an unmarried mother. They closed their investigation after just four months having made little e

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International

From war to war: The suffering of Ethiopian migrants in Yemen

The International Organization for Migration recorded the entry of about 134,000 migrants into Yemen by the end of September 2026, an increase of 22 percent compared to the total number of arrivals during the year 2025. Large numbers of Ethiopians constitute the majority of migrants coming through this route, as many of them leave their country driven by economic factors or internal armed conflict, in the hope of reaching the Gulf states through Yemeni territory.

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